Martin BrücknerProfessor, Department of English Associate Professor English and Material Culture Studies English Department University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716 (302) 831-1971
Martin Brückner, (M.A. Mainz University '92, Germany; Ph.D. Brandeis Univerity '97), specializes in American literature and culture from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. He is the author of The Geographic Revolution in Early America: Maps, Literacy, and National Identity (2006), which won the 2007 Louis Gottschalk Prize, and co-editor with Hsuan L. Hsu of American Literary Geographies: Spatial Practice and Cultural Production, 1500-1900 (2007). His articles have been published in American Quarterly, English Literary History, American Literary History, and numerous essay collections. A recipient of the Francis Alison Younger Scholar Award (UD, '02) and the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship (Omohundro Institute, '01), he is currently working on a book about translation, material culture, and performance in early America. Brückner teaches undergraduate courses on topics in American literature, as well as on the Enlightenment, the history of the book, and the environmental imagination. He has taught graduate courses on early American literature, cultural studies, and methods and research in literary studies.
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